Monthly Archives: April 2010

FDIC Friday…. 8 more banks shut…. most of the deals today are loss sharing (one was a closure) – since the FDIC is broke, they agree to pay the acquiring bank for the bad loans in the future (pushing the … Continue reading →

Howie Carr suspended by WRKO for a week – for bad-mouthing station management on the air. WRKO recently lost Rush Limbaugh to a new News/Talk station owned and run by Clear Channel. For those who don’t follow Howie Carr in … Continue reading →

The Sun is not the only source of global warming. Scientists have a habit of putting on blinders and not thinking outside of their specialty As events in Iceland should remind people, the Earth has a molten core, and the … Continue reading →

Abacast v4 player seems to be opening pop-under ads when you close the player…. that makes me very unhappy….

Will the iPad kill Adobe Flash? The iPad and iPhone don’t currently support Flash – Apple (depending on who you listen to) don’t want flash because it is 1) Insecure 2) CPU intensive 3) decreases battery life 4) undermines the … Continue reading →

Idiots in Congress…. All the news is about the new bill being passed and how it gives certian “rights” to the homosexual ? gay ? life partner ? community. Well, la, te, frigging da to quote Chris Farley, If those … Continue reading →

Who is Richard M. Scaife and why should you care? This story starts with a benign announcement that All News radio station KQV-AM in Pittsburgh is picking up Laura Ingraham’s radio show. Is this a hint that another all-news AM … Continue reading →

A relative of mine (a doctor) posted on her facebook page how much healthier we would be if all of us would follow Mao’s… errr Obama’s… advice to ride bicycles… This a few weeks after they bought a new R.V. … Continue reading →

1816 – the Year without a summer. A massive volanic eruption in Indonesia caused snow to fall in Pennsylvania in June. Interestingly, that article mentions a contributing factor was the sun was in a period of minimal sunspot activity (aka … Continue reading →

External explosion – the stem (the back end) of the South Korean has been lifted from 120 feet of water. There is a huge hole, consistent with an external explosion – a torpedo or a mine. The remains are now … Continue reading →

Iceland to EU – you said to send you all our ash, right?

SEIU on strike in Connecticut – barring a last minute agreement, 34 nursing homes in Connecticut will have picket lines from the SEIU demanding higher wages and better working conditions starting at 6 AM today. Obama! Obama! Obama!

FCC Chairman Genachowski at the NAB convention. From what I read, it sounds like there was complete silence during his entire keynote address. Not even polite applause. If you have 2.9 GB of bandwidth to burn, here is the video: … Continue reading →

Oh my! Tea Party members aren’t hayseeds…. the NY Times has realized that the Tea Party people have more education and money than the average person, and aren’t people with no teeth from rural Michigan driving around in pickup trucks … Continue reading →